Bucks and Montgomery County Public Schools

There are over 200,000 students in 300 schools in Bucks and Montgomery Counties. To learn more about each school district as well as technical schools and intermediate units in our area, visit the CAPS interactive map.

Teaching Excellence in Bucks and Montgomery Counties

Bucks and Montgomery County schools and students are continually recognized at the regional, state and national level for academics, athletics and creative and performing arts, as well as vocational technical skills.

The success of our area public schools is often recognized by leading news outlets such as Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer. And, according to a survey of area realtors, the quality of our schools helps attract prospective homebuyers and increase the value of real estate. It’s just one more way that public education builds strong communities.

In 2018-19, Bucks and Montgomery County schools had 78.6% of their graduates indicate they were “college bound.” Statewide, that percentage was 67.3%.
In 2018-19, the average classroom teacher in Bucks and Montgomery counties’ public schools had 15.2 years of experience. During the same time frame, the average classroom teacher in Pennsylvania had 14.3 years of experience.
In 2017-18, 79.9 percent of the classroom teachers in Bucks and Montgomery counties’ public schools had Master’s degrees or higher. For Pennsylvania teachers overall, the number with master’s degrees or higher was 58.1 percent.

SOURCE: Pennsylvania Department of Education

Illustrious Alumni

A sampling of Bucks and Montgomery County Alumni

(To suggest other alumni for inclusion, please contact us)

Arts and Entertainment

Candace Allen – Miss District of Columbia USA 2006, Cheltenham
Brian Baker – Former Sprint Pitchman, William Tennent
Susan Bernheim Winston – Emmy Award-winning television producer, Cheltenham
Barbara Snedeker Bates – Editor & Author, Cheltenham
Allison Blackwell, Broadway Vocalist/Actress, Springfield Township
Michael Brecker – Grammy Award-winning Jazz artist, Cheltenham
Randy Brecker – Grammy Award-winning Jazz artist, Cheltenham
Robert Curtis Brown – Actor, Pennsbury
Andrew Bryniarski – Actor, North Penn
Steve Capus – Executive Editor of NBC News, William Tennent
Chris Collingwood – Lead Singer, Fountains of Wayne, Pennridge
Laurie Colwin – Author & Columnist, Cheltenham
Robert Costa – Journalist & Author, Pennsbury
Maggie Friedman – Producer, Screenwriter, Cheltenham
Jillian Parry Fry – 2000 Miss Teen USA, Council Rock North
Pamela Fryman – TV sitcom director, Harriton
Tom Fulp – Website and Flash Game Creator, Pennridge
Anthony Green – Lead Singer, Circa Survive, Council Rock North
Justin Guarini – 2002 American Idol Runner-Up, Central Bucks East
Werner Gundersheimer – Director, Folger Shakespeare Library, Cheltenham
Jon Hensley – Actor, Central Bucks West
Marshall Herskovitz – Producer/Director, Lower Merion
Donald Hunsberger, Composer and Conductor, Former Director of the Eastman School of Music, Souderton
Elizabeth Hur, Correspondent/Anchor, ABC News, Upper Dublin
Trina Schart Hyman – Artist & Illustrator, Cheltenham High School
Karen Folger Jacobs – Author, Screenwriter & Educator, Cheltenham
Hallie Jackson – Journalist, Pennsbury
Aaron Jay Kernis – 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Music, Bensalem
Richard Kind – Actor, Pennsbury
Lewis Klein – Television Pioneer & Educator, Cheltenham
Suzy Kolber – ESPN Sunday Night Football Sideline Reporter, Upper Dublin
Maxine Winokur Kumin – Poet & Novelist, Cheltenham
Sky Lakota-Lynch, Broadway Actor currently in “Dear Evan Hansen,” North Penn
Richard Levinson – Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Producer, Cheltenham
William Link – Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Producer, Cheltenham
David Lu – Associate Principal Timpanist, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Upper Dublin
Mary Ellen Mark – Photojournalist, Cheltenham
Melanie Mayron – Emmy Award Winning Actress & Director, Wissahickon
Jennifer McLaughlin – New York Times Bestselling Author (pen name Diane Roberts), North Penn
Elizabeth Mencel (Rozes)- Singer/Performer, North Penn
Nancy Meyers – Hollywood Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Lower Merion
James A. Michener – Novelist, CB West (formerly Doylestown)
Alecia Beth Moore (Pink)- Singer/Performer, CB West
Annie Morton – International Model, Neshaminy
Andrew Neu, Jazz Musician and Arranger, Hatboro-Horsham
Anthony Nuccio, Actor Touring Company “Rock of Ages,” North Penn
John Oates – Member of Hall & Oates, North Penn
Zach Ogle – Actor, Screenwriter, Central Bucks West
Victoria Pedretti, Actress, Pennsbury
Donald Pike – Emmy Award-Winning Technical Manager, Cheltenham
Sarah Pribis – Broadway Actor, Wissahickon
Asher Roth – Musical Artist, Pennsbury
Jesse Ruben, Acoustic Singer/Songwriter, Lower Moreland
Bob Saget, Actor/Comedian, Abington
Lisa Salters – ESPN Sideline Reporter/Correspondent, Upper Merion
Roger Scott – Musician & Educator, Cheltenham
Lisa Scottoline – Author, Lower Merion
Stephen A. Schwartzman – Chair, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Abington
Chuck Sheetz – Emmy-Award-Winning Animator & Director, The Simpsons, Spring-Ford
Ann Shoket – Founder, New Power Media & former Editor-In-Chief of Seventeen magazine, Pennsbury
Shwa – Singer/Songwriter, Council Rock North
Mike Sielski – Journalist/Author, Upper Merion
Josh Singer – Emmy-Nominated Writer & Producer, Upper Dublin
Michael B. Sisak, III, Award-winning national journalist, The New York Times, Upper Dublin
Michael Smerconish – CNN Host, Author & Columnist, Central Bucks West
Kenny Solms – Television Writer & Producer, Cheltenham
Matt Spicer – Writer, Producer, Actor and Cinematographer, Upper Moreland
Jerry Spinelli – Children’s Author, Newberry Medal Winner, Norristown
Stefan Springman – TV Producer/Host, Central Bucks East
Melissa Stein – Poet, Upper Dublin
Jon Steinburg – TV Producer, Screenwriter, Cheltenham
Kellee Stewart – Actress, Norristown
Richard Suckle – Producer, Golden Globe Award Winner, Cheltenham
Stephen Susco – Screenwriter, Central Bucks East
John Tartaglia – Broadway Actor, Upper Dublin
Dustin Tavella – Winner of America’s Got Talent (Magician), Pottsgrove
Josh Tower – Broadway Actor, Upper Dublin
Kuhoo Verma, Hollywood Actor “The Big Sick,” North Penn
Troy Vincent, NFL Player, Pennsbury
Mike Vogel – Actor, William Tennent
Katie Walder – Actress, Lower Moreland Township
Tom Warburton, Animator/Producer/Director/Writer/Designer, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, Upper Dublin
Liza Weil – Actress, North Penn
Kenya D. Williamson – Novelist, Screenwriter, Actress, Neshaminy
Zach Woods – Actor, Pennsbury
Steve Young – TV Writer, Author, Neshaminy
Rachel Zatcoff – Broadway actress (Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera), Upper Dublin

Business

Fred Allegrezza, Computer Technology Innovator/Inventor/Entrepreneur, Upper Dublin
Amar G. Bose, Chairman & Founder, Bose Corporation, Abington
William Eagleson, Jr. – Banking Executive, Cheltenham
James Farquhar – Civic Leader & Philanthropist, Cheltenham
David “West Coast Dave” Hershenson – Dotcom Entrepreneur, Pennsbury
Arthur Magill – Industrialist & Philanthropist, Cheltenham
Bill Mensch – Microprocessor Pioneer; Founder, Chairman & CEO Western Design Center, Pennridge
Greg Moyer – General Manager, VOOM HD Networks, North Penn
Bernard Rothschild – Architect, Cheltenham
Michael Rubin – E-Commerce Entrepreneur, Colonial

Education

Jill Biden – First Lady of the United States, English Professor, Upper Moreland
Michael Brown – Former Dean/Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
JoAnne A. Epps, Executive Vice President and Provost/Professor of Law at Temple University, Cheltenham
Jeanne Friedmann Westheimer – Harvard University Administrator, Cheltenham
Jordan Hyatt, J.D., Ph.D. – Nationally Recognized Scholar in Criminology, Upper Dublin
Craig Littlepage – College Administrator & Educator, Cheltenham
Perry Triplett – Local Historian, Cheltenham

Law and Government

Hon. R. Stephen Barrett, Esq – Judge, Springfield
Ashton Carter – Former U.S Secretary of Defense, Abington
Paul Clymer – Former Member, PA House of Representatives, Pennridge
Roy Cornell – Former PA State Representative, Hatboro-Horsham
Willard Curtin – Former Legislator, U.S. House of Representatives, Morrisville Borough
Madeleine Dean, U.S. Representative, Abington
Andrew Egendorf – Attorney & Entrepreneur, Cheltenham
Risa Vetri Ferman – Judge Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, Abington
Fred Fielding – Former White House Counsel, Central Bucks West
Glenn A. Fine – Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Cheltenham
Wilmot E. Fleming – State Senator, Cheltenham
Jon D. Fox – Former U.S. Congressman, Cheltenham
James C. Greenwood – Former U.S. Congressman, Council Rock North
Jill Kelley – Key Figure, FBI Investigation, Lower Moreland
Ro Khanna – U.S. Representative, Council Rock
Edwin Kneedler – Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, North Penn
Richard S. Lowe – Judge, Cheltenham
John Lynch, J.D. – Former Major, U.S. Army Rangers, Upper Dublin
Steve Malagari – PA State Representative, North Penn
Robert J. Myers – Social Security Expert, Cheltenham
Valerie Plame – Former CIA Officer; Wife of Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Lower Moreland
Norma Levy Shapiro – Former Senior Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Cheltenham
Ronald Shapiro – Attorney, Cheltenham
Christopher Stamper, D.P.A. – Commander, U.S. Navy (Retired/Aviator/Instructor, Joint Warfighting Department at Air Command Staff College, Upper Dublin
Todd Stephens – PA State Representative, Hatboro-Horsham
Omar Toor – Largest Private Firm, Pennsbury
Kurt Volker – Former Permanent U.S. Ambassador, NATO, Hatboro-Horsham
William Yarnall, III – Chief Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Strategic Airlift Maintenance Supt./Air Bases worldwide, Upper Dublin

Science and Medicine

Steven Altschuler – M.D., Former President & CEO, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Lower Merion
Michael S. Brown, MD – 1985 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Cheltenham
Sherwood Chang – Space Scientist & Natural Historian, Cheltenham
Denis A. Cortese, MD – Emeritus President and CEO of the Mayo Clinic, Cheltenham
Nancy Guest Cummings, MD – Physician, Cheltenham
Winnifred Berg Cutler – Biologist & Author, Cheltenham
Thomas Doyle, M.D. – Pediatric Cardiologist/Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Monroe Carell Children’s Hospital — Vanderbilt University, Upper Dublin
Peter S. Eagleson, ScD – Scientist & Educator, Cheltenham
David Eskin, MD – Former Chief of Staff, Abington Memorial Hospital, Cheltenham
James Hay, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., Family Physician, Past President – California Medical Association, Upper Dublin
Doris Retinger Helms – Biologist & Educator, Cheltenham
George Krauss – Engineer & Educator, Cheltenham
Horace MacVaugh, III, MD – Naval Surgeon & Educator, Cheltenham
Margaret Mead – Anthropologist, CB West (formerly Doylestown)
Dr. Thomas Rosko – Director of Psychosomatic Medicine in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Wissahickon
Richard Rothman – Surgeon, Founder of the Rothman Institute, Cheltenham
David Saxon – Physicist, Educator & Administrator, Cheltenham
Kathy Shaw, M.D., M.S.C.E. – Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician/Endowed Chair, Emergency Medicine — Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/Professor and Associate Chair, Pediatrics — University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Upper Dublin
Robert C. Solomon, PhD – Author & Educator, Cheltenham

Sports

Josh Adams – Philadelphia Eagles Running Back, Central Bucks South
Chris Bahr – Former NFL Placekicker, Cincinnati Bengals; Soccer Midfielder, Philadelphia Atoms, Neshaminy
Matt Bahr – Former NFL Placekicker, Super Bowl Champ, Pittsburgh Steelers, Neshaminy
Len Barker – Former MLB Pitcher, Texas Rangers, Neshaminy
Steve Bono – Former Quarterback, San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl champion (XXIV); Pro Bowl selection (1995); AFC Player of the Year (1995); Norristown Area
Adele Boyd – Athlete, Coach & Official, Cheltenham
Kobe Bryant – Former NBA Player, Los Angeles Lakers, Lower Merion
Matt Carroll – Former NBA Player, Charlotte Bobcats, Hatboro-Horsham
Jay Caufield – Former NHL Right-Winger, Pittsburgh Penguins, North Penn
Kermit Cintron – Former Boxer, William Tennent
Frank Coonelly – President, Pittsburgh Pirates, Centennial School District
Rob Cragg – 1976 USA Olympic Diving Team, Upper Dublin
Joe Daley – Professional Golfer, Colonial
Susan Francia – Olympic Rower, Abington
Steve Frey – Former Professional Baseball Player, William Tennent
Kim Gallagher – U.S. Track Olympian, Upper Dublin
Eddie George – Former NFL All-Pro Running Back, Abington
Scott Green – Former NFL Referee, Central Bucks West
Bob Grupp – Former NFL Punter, Kansas City Chiefs, Neshaminy
Donald Haldeman – 1976 Summer Olympics Trapshooting Gold Medalist, Souderton
Dick Hart – Former NFL Guard, Philadelphia Eagles, Morrisville Borough
Al Holbert – American Automobile Racing Driver, Central Bucks West
Sam Hollenbach – Former NFL Quarterback, Washington Redskins, Pennridge
Reggie Jackson – Former Right-Fielder, Cheltenham
Kelsey Koelzer – Professional Hockey Player & Coach, Hatboro-Horsham
Tommy Lasorda, MLB Hall of Fame Pitcher and Manager, Norristown
Tim Lewis – Former NFL Cornerback, Green Bay Packers, Assistant Coach for the Atlanta Falcons, Pennridge
Will Lewis – Former NFL Cornerback, Director of College Scouting, Kansas City Chiefs, Pennridge
Jeff Manto – MLB Player & Coach, Bristol
John C. McHugh – Former Head Wrestling Coach, U. of Maryland (College Park), Cheltenham
Brandon McManus, NFL Kicker, 2016 Superbowl Champion Denver Broncos, North Penn
Bobby Mitchell – MLB Player, Norristown
Tom Mitchell – Former NFL Tight End, San Francisco 49ers, Colonial
Jamie Moyer – Former Pitcher, Philadelphia Phillies, Souderton
Danny Napoleon – Former MLB Left Fielder, NY Mets, Morrisville Borough
Mike Pettine – Defensive Coordinator, Green Bay Packers, Central Bucks West
Justin Pugh – NFL Player, Council Rock South
Virginia Redford – Athlete, Coach & Educator, Cheltenham
Louis Riddick – Former NFL Safety, San Francisco 49ers, Pennridge
Robb Riddick – Former NFL Running Back, Buffalo Bills, Pennridge
Harry Schuh – Former NFL Offensive Tackle, Oakland Raiders
Bryan Scott – Former NFL Player, Buffalo Bills, Central Bucks East
Mike Senica – NASCAR Driver, Professional Wrestler, Central Bucks West
Steve Shull – Former NFL Linebacker, Miami Dolphins, Neshaminy
Scott Stankavage – Former NFL Quarterback, Denver Broncos, Central Bucks East
Michael Stiles – Former Senior Vice President, Philadelphia Phillies, Upper Dublin
Wallace Triplett – Former NFL Halfback, Cheltenham
Troy Vincent – Former NFL Defensive Back, Pennsbury
Shawn Wooden – Former NFL Free Safety, Abington
Jay Wright – Head Basketball Coach, Villanova University, Council Rock